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| known for = Crop breeding
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>[[Borlaug Award|Norman Borlaug Award]]<br>[[Bal Dattatreya Tilak|B. D. Tilak]] Lecture Award
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'''Atmaram Bhairav Joshi''', popularly known as '''A. B. Joshi''', was an Indian agricultural scientist and academic,<ref name="Deceased Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N610348 | title=Deceased Fellow | publisher=Indian National Science Academy |year=2015 | access-date=17 June 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812230658/http://insaindia.org.in/deceaseddetail.php?id=N610348 | archive-date=12 August 2016 }}</ref> known for his contributions to the field of wheat and other crop breeding.<ref name="International Dictionary of University Histories">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwVEAgAAQBAJ&q=dr.+a+b+joshi&pg=PA211 | title=International Dictionary of University Histories | publisher=Routledge | author=Mary Elizabeth Devine, Carol Summerfield | year=2013 | pages=808 | isbn=9781134262106}}</ref><ref name="Plant Breeding Methods">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HINEBQAAQBAJ&q=dr.+a+b+joshi&pg=PA27 | title=Plant Breeding Methods | publisher=PHI Learning |year=2014 | access-date=18 June 2015 | author=Mahabal Ram | pages=724 | isbn=9788120348509}}</ref> He was the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Phule Krishi Viswavidyalaya, [[Rahuri]] and the chairman of the Research Advisory Committee of the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]], New Delhi.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1975.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |year=2015 |access-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Born on 17 November 1916,<ref name="IAS Fellow Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/php/pfell_detail.php3?name=joshi&initials%20=atmaram%20bhairav&year=17-11-1916 | title=IAS Fellow Profile | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |year=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> A. B. Joshi graduated (BSc Honours) from [[Nagpur University]] in 1937.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> After securing a post graduate diploma from the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]], New Delhi (IARI) in 1939,<ref name="International Dictionary of University Histories" /> he passed his MSc in 1945 and PhD in 1950 from the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="IAS Fellow Profile" /> His career started in 1940 as a research assistant at his alma mater, IARI, where he rose in ranks to become a professor, the dean of post graduate studies (1958–65) and the director of the institution (1965–66).<ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA">{{cite web | url=http://www.iauaindia.org/pastpresidents_fr.htm | title=List of Past – President of IAUA | publisher=Indian Agricultural Universities Association |year=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Aquatic Weeds in South East Asia">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lW3fHiDjHNcC&q=dr.+a+b+joshi&pg=PR13 | title=Aquatic Weeds in South East Asia | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |year=1976 | access-date=18 June 2015 | author=C.K. Varshney, J. Rzóska | pages=396 | isbn=9789061935568}}</ref> In 1966, he was posted at the [[Indian Council for Agricultural Research]] (ICAR) as the deputy director general, a post he held till 1972 when he returned to IARI as its director.<ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA" /> After superannuation in 1977, he was appointed as the vice-chancellor of the Mahatama Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, [[Rahuri]] and worked there till his retirement in 1980.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA" />

Joshi was a member of the ''Task Force on Agricultural Education'' of the [[Kothari Commission]] (1964–66)<ref name="Task Force on Agriculture Education">{{cite web | url=http://www.dise.in/Downloads/KothariCommissionVol.1pp.1-287.pdf | title=Task Force on Agriculture Education | publisher=National Council of Educational Research and Training |year=1970 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> set up by the [[Government of India]] to advise on general principles and policies for the development of education in India.<ref name="Introduction to Education Commissions 1964-66">{{cite web | url=http://www.kkhsou.in/main/education/edu_commission.html | title=Introduction to Education Commissions 1964–66 | publisher=Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University |year=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> He was the co-ordinator of the [[Indian Council for Agricultural Research|ICAR]] sponsored Wheat Research Project (1960–66)<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> During his tenure as the vice-chancellor of the MPKV university, he also served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the prime minister of India (1972–76).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> Joshi died on 3 July 2010 at the age of 93, at [[Pune]], in [[Maharashtra]].<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="IAS Fellow Profile" />

==Legacy==
Joshi is known to have conducted cytogenetic research on a number of crops such as [[sesame]], [[chickpea]], tobacco, and [[Capsicum]] and research on the evolutionary origin of [[Okra]] (Bhindi) and [[Panicum maximum]] (fodder grass).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He introduced crop improvement of wheat and cotton through quantitative genic exploitation and is known to have contributed for the success of the [[Green Revolution in India]] in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CaQ3-x3LXMC&q=dr.+a+b+joshi&pg=PA278 | title=From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry | publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2011 | access-date=18 June 2015 | author=D. P. Burma | pages=511 | isbn=9788131732205}}</ref> His researches were published by way of over 300 articles<ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA" /> which included many monographs on [[sesame]] and cotton.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He also guided 45 post graduate and doctoral students in their researches.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" />

The Task Force of [[Kothari Commission]], in which Joshi was a member, is reported to have made several recommendations aimed at developing agricultural education in India. He was a member of the High Level Committee set up by the [[Government of India]] for the establishment of a national centre for plant introduction and germplasm augmentation for use in crop improvement and the ''National Bureau of Plant Introduction'' was established in August 1976 on the advice of the committee.<ref name="Genetic Resources and Seed Enterprises: Management and Policies">{{cite book | isbn=9788189422653 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziSukXKhYSYC&q=dr.+a+b+joshi&pg=PA29 | title=Genetic Resources and Seed Enterprises: Management and Policies | publisher=New India Publishing |year=2007 | access-date=18 June 2015 | pages=984}}</ref> The centre was again revamped to establish the present day National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources in January 1977.<ref name="Genetic Resources and Seed Enterprises: Management and Policies" /><ref name="Historical account of NBPGR">{{cite web | url=http://www.nbpgr.ernet.in/About_NBPGR/At_a_Glance.aspx | title=Historical account of NBPGR | publisher=NBPGR |year=2015 | access-date=19 June 2015}}</ref> His assistance to [[M. S. Swaminathan]] and [[Benjamin Peary Pal]] were also reported in the development of the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]].<ref name="From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry" />

Joshi served the Quintennial Review Team of the [[International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics]] (ICRISAT), Hyderabad as a member and chaired the Research Advisory Committees of the [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]], the [[Central Institute for Cotton Research]], Nagpur, NABARA, Mumbai and the [[Agharkar Research Institute]], Pune.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He headed the [[Indian Agricultural Universities Association]] as its president in 1980. He was also associated as a member with several international projects such as the International Team for Improvement of Agricultural Research Organization in Indonesia (1969), the advisory committee of [[CGIAR|Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)]], Washington DC, USA (1973–77) and the [[World Bank]] Mission to Tanzania (1979).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He was the project manager of the [[FAO]]/[[UNDP]] project on the improvement of field crop productivity in Egypt and a member of the board of directors of the [[International Potato Center|International Potato Research Institute]], Lima (1972–76).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" />

Joshi was the president of the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding for two terms, in 1962 and 1978.<ref name="ISGPB About Us">{{cite web | url=http://www.isgpb.co.in/about.aspx | title=ISGPB About Us | publisher=Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding | year=2015 | access-date=18 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093012/http://www.isgpb.co.in/about.aspx | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ISGPB Home">{{cite web | url=http://www.isgpb.co.in/ | title=ISGPB Home | publisher=Indian Society of Generics and Plant Breeding |year=2015 | access-date=19 June 2015}}</ref> He was the secretary of the Indian National Science Academy from 1973 to 1976.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He was the president of Maharashtra Association for Cultivation of Science and the chairman of the Research Development Committee of the Central Bee Research Institute, Pune as well as the [[Khadi and Village Industries Commission]] centre attached to the institution.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He also served as the vice-president of the Maharashtra Education Society, Pune.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" />

==Awards and honours==
Several Indian universities such as [[G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology]], Pantanagar, [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]], New Delhi, and [[Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University]], Parbhani (Maharashtra) awarded him DSc (honoris causa).<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA" /> In 1976, the [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]]<ref name="Padma Shri" /> and he received the [[Borlaug Award|Norman Borlaug Award]] from [[Coromandel International]] the same year.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /><ref name="List of Past - President of IAUA" /> The [[Indian National Science Academy]] elected him as a fellow in 1961 and selected him for the BD Tilak Award lecture in 1984.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> He was an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]], New Delhi<ref name="Fellows deceased since the founding of the Academy">{{cite web|url=http://naasindia.org/fellowships.html |title=Fellows deceased since the founding of the Academy |publisher=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences |year=2015 |access-date=19 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127230718/http://naasindia.org/fellowships.html |archive-date=27 January 2015 }}</ref> [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="IAS Fellow Profile" />
[[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]], Pune,<ref name="List of Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://mahascience.org/files/Fellowship/files/academyMembers.htm#j | title=List of Fellows | publisher=Maharashtra Academy of Sciences | access-date=19 June 2015}}</ref>
the [[Indian Botanical Society]], and the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding.<ref name="Deceased Fellow" /> The [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] instituted the AB Joshi Memorial Award in 2002, in his honour<ref name="Dr. R. S. Paroda receives the First Dr. A.B. Joshi Memorial Award">{{cite web|url=http://www.haryanakisanayog.org/Awards/AB_Joshi_Award.pdf |title=Dr. R. S. Paroda receives the First Dr. A.B. Joshi Memorial Award |publisher=Haryana Kisana Yog |year=2012 |access-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620120212/http://www.haryanakisanayog.org/Awards/AB_Joshi_Award.pdf |archive-date=20 June 2015 }}</ref> and organises an annual lecture under the name, ''AB Joshi Memorial award lecture''.<ref name="IARI Award Invitation">{{cite web | url=http://iari.res.in/files/Dr-AB-Joshi-Lecture-13-2-2012.pdf | title=IARI Award Invitation | publisher=IARI |year=2012 | access-date=18 June 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063628/http://iari.res.in/files/Dr-AB-Joshi-Lecture-13-2-2012.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]]
* [[Green Revolution in India]]
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{{portal|India|Agriculture}}

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